Christianity

What is Christianity?

Made in our image

Jesus will resonate with a community that…

Sees themselves in him

Raphael, The Burning Bush

God appears as a man

Jesus is 

Sacred

The bible is made up of?

4 genres and material

What does gospel mean?

Good news

1st genre of bible, Gospel

Good news, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John

2nd genre of bible, Acts

Acts of apostles

3rd genre of bible, Letters

Letters of Paul, Jacob

4th genre of bible

Book of Revelation

Suetonius wrote about a time 20yrs after Jesus died

Chirstians aren’t a thing yet, they are just Jews that followed Christ

Why were Jews being kicked out of Rome?

Because they were always rioting about death of Christus

Tacitus, 30AD

Not Judaism anymore, but not yet Christianity

Josephus, Hellenized Jew, paid to write history. Refers to the death of James the brother of Jews (so-called christ)

Thinks that the death of Jesus’ brother should be recorded. Brother of the leader

Conflation meaning

Emergence

Gospels are

independent texts and not interconnected

Roman occupation occurred in

1st century Palestine

The Pharisees were separated

In multiple different sects

Temple priests

Tithed at temple

Essenes were

Jews who moved outside of the city, exclusively men who were preparing to fight a cosmic war

Zealots were

Killed Roman soldiers. Killing them with daggers

Jesus’ ethnicity

1st century Palestinian Jew, and did all the things typical Jews did

Who was Jesus baptized by?

John the Baptist

John the baptist is speculated to be a what?

Essenes

What Jesus’ closest companions?

The 12 disciples 

Who are Jesus’ closest friends?

Peter, James, John

John the Baptist gets…

Executed

Once John the Baptist dies

It left a vacant spot for someone to fill; Jesus

What does Jesus teach?

That he has a unique relationship with God

What did Jesus’ teaching do to the Pharisees?

He made them angry by telling them God was his father.

What are Jesus’ themes of social justice?

Feeding the hungry, forgiving everyone, and taking care of the needy 

What does Jesus teach?

Love and forgiveness

What does Jesus preach?

That something big is going to happen

How did people take Jesus’ teaching?

They made everyone angry

What happened during passover?

People welcomed Jesus like a king and the Romans arrested him

What type of arrest did they arrest Jesus for?

Politically

What did they find Jesus to be guilty of?

The king of Jews; a political offense

Who killed Jesus?

The Romans

Who did NOT kill Jesus?

The Jews

Jewish people may not have liked Jesus, but…

they had no authority to arrest him

The oldest Gospel does not include…

a resurrection

What does the oldest gospel stop at?

Mark 16:8

Jesus’ resurrection was added…

later

What did Jesus’ disciples do after Jesus was killed?

They hid

How long did it take for a collection to be formed for the new testament?

300 years

What did Jesus do in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas

Jesus killed a kid

The Gospels were oral traditions passed through what languages?

Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek

Which gospel has both Mark and Matthew?

Luke

What part of the gospels were actually written down?

Jesus’ sayings

When was the oldest gospel written?

60AD

When was Matthew written?

80AD

When was Luke written?

80-90AD

80% of Mark was?

Written in Matthew and Luke

Matthew and Luke were written by…

2 different people

What does Quelle mean?

Source

What language is Quelle?

German

Matthew and Luke had…

an alternative source to put in their book

What is Quelle?

A collection of Jesus’ saying

What contained the Gospel of Thomas?

Dead Sea Scrolls

What was the Gospel of Thomas?

Another collection of Jesus’ sayings

What is a Two-source Hypothesis?

Matthew, Mark, and Luke are considered synoptic Gospels. 

What does synoptic mean? 

of or forming a general summary

Jesus was one Messiah among…

Many others

What was a Messiah?

A political testament, anointed by a king

Why was Jesus a different kind of Messiah?

Because people said he was God/Son of God

How can you become the Son of God?

By appointment, by adoption, be elevated

All Gods have?

Court advisors

Which king was adopted to be the Son of God?

King David and King Solomon

When was Julius Caesar assassinated?

44BCE

Who was considered a God?

Julius Caesar

When was Julius Caesar made a God?

2 years after he died

Julius Caesar’s adopted son

Agustus Caesar

Who assassinated Julius Caesar?

Augustus Caesar assassinated his own father

Augustus Caesar was considered?

The Son of God

How can one become a Son of God?

A God could sleep with a human woman

When did Paul write 1st Thessalonians?

50AD

What did Paul write about Jesus?

That he was divine upon resurrection

When did Paul write about Jesus?

20AD

When was Mark written?

70AD

What does Mark not include?

That Jesus was born of a virgin

When were Matthew and Luke written?

70-80AD

What did Matthew and Luke write about?

Jesus’ birth conception

When was John written?

120-130AD

What does John write about?

That Jesus has been transcendently divine from the beginning

The further away we get from the timeline of Jesus…

The more divine he becomes

Early disciples hid and fled after

Jesus died

The early Christian church was formed in Jerusalem by who?

Peter and James

Peter and James church was made for..

Jews by jews

What did Saul do to people who were Christians of Peter and James’ church

He persecuted them

Saul gets approached by Jesus in a dream, then goes blind and changes his name to…

Paul

Who does Paul preach to?

Gentiles

The First Christian Counsel

Paul was taken to Jerusalem and got told not the spread the word to gentiles

What were the terms Paul gave to preach to the Gentiles.

If you don’t preach to Gentiles, then Christianity will dies

James and Pete agree to Paul’s terms but they give their own terms.

Gentiles have to convert to some Jewish things, but not all of them. No sexual impurity, some kosher things, no circumcision

Apocalyps meaning

Reveal or revealing

Christianity apocalyps

Jesus is coming soon

Institutions outlive

Individuals

Institutions have to find

Something everyone believes in

Eucharist

Communion

Episkopoi

Overseers, need people to oversee the church institution